Alan Ball Quotes

There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.

The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life.

When I'm buying car insurance I ask myself, 'Which company has the most annoying and relentless commercials?'

Telling lies does not work in advertising.

If the networks can get audiences to tolerate pop-up promos by the dozens, maybe they'll start selling pop-up commercials, too.

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

I have never run a negative political ad in my life.

Political advertising works, particularly when it’s unrebutted.

Warning: This ad has not been cleared for truth and fairness as ads for commercial products are.

The advertisements form the most interesting and practical city news. They are the hopes, the thoughts, the joys, the plans, the shames, the losses, the mishaps, the fortunes, the pleasures, the miseries, the politics, and the religion of the people. Each advertiser is therefore a reporter, a sort of penny-a-liner, he paying the penny. What a picture ... one day's advertisements ... presents to mankind!

It is very dangerous for a government, judge or jury to determine what is deceptive advertising in a political context…. We pay a price for freedom of speech, and that price includes falsehoods that can be repeated thousands of time.

To protect our independence, we'll never run ads.

We're not doing brain surgery. We're not saving lives... Even if you're doing Shakespeare, it's still entertainment. We're just entertaining people. We're just doing the stuff that comes on in between the ads.

I've now been in over 100 adverts for Walkers, and we've had a lot of laughs along the way.

I think the ongoing discussion of the world of advertising is, 'Where is the soul in advertising?'

I came to Mumbai in 2000 to do a hotel management course. Following this, I worked as a marketing executive with Hotel Sheraton in Muscat for a year. It was in 2004 that I participated in the Gladrags Mr. India contest and bagged the most popular model award. After that, I did few ramp shows and ads.

I was addicted to 'The Monkees' TV programme - not so much because of the music but because of the commercials in between. The programme was sponsored by Yardley, and in the commercial breaks, there would be these English girls on roller skates, wearing hot pants, and I just thought, 'God! How neat!'

We are video consumers first and foremost, and we hate anything appearing in the videos that isn't organic.

British podcasts tend to shamefacedly shuffle the ads towards the end. Americans put them up front and promote them enthusiastically. I think the Americans have it right.

In TV you have to open a show the subject, you deal with an idea. Then you deal with a sponsor - but fast. Then you have to announce the guest stars. As a result, you have a big fat 30, 40 seconds - 50 if they really lose their heads - to put together an unbelievable mishmash.

There's so much advertising on television that I find just lazy, just so lazy. I'm like, 'Why are they doing that?'

I'm a big fan of advertising during sports events.

Seeing my face when they run ads for an upcoming Raw or SmackDown is pretty insane.

TV ads let people know you're still around. Not only do they sell albums, they give you a high profile. They let people know you're out there and working.

As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.